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Home My WebLink About1981-2497 INCREASING FEES FOR SPECIAL PARKING PERMITS & FOR LONG TERM PARKING PERMITS IN PUBLIC PARKING LOTS ORDINANCE NO. 1497 AN ORDINANCE relating to traffic control; amending rules and regulations by increasing fees for special parking permits and for long term parking permits in public • parking lots; amending Subsections 9.50.670 C, 9.50.670 D and 9.50.675 C of the City of Yakima Muni- cipal Code; and declaring an emergency. WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Yakima hereby finds and declares an emergency to exist for the reason that the income to be realized from the fees provided by this ordinance has been budgeted as revenue by the 1981 City Budget, previously adopted, now, therefore, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA: 101 Section 1. Subsection 9.50.670 C of the City of Yakima Muni- cipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: • "9.50.670 Special parking permit--Fees--Regulations. C. Upon the approval of the application by the oor . special services manager, the approved application shall be presented by the applicant to the city treasurer, and applicant shall pay the city treasurer one month's permit fee in the sum of ten dollars." Section 2. Subsection 9.50.670 D of the City of Yakima Muni- cipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "9.50.670 S.ecial .arkin: permit--Fees--Re•ulations. D. The fee for a special parking permit is established at ten dollars per month for a period of thirty days from date • of issuance of the permit, or one hundred dollars per year, with all fees being payable in advance." Section 3. Subsection 9.50.675 C of the City of Yakima Muni- cipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "9.50.675 Public parking lots. • C. Long-term parking permits. (1) Issuance of permits. The issuance of permits to authorized long-term vehicular parking in public park- ing lots operated by the city shall be administered by the office of the Yakima city treasurer according to 111 the following rules and regulations: - 1. The number of long-term permits to be issued for parking in any lot shall not exceed fifty percent of the parking spaces in each respective lot; pro- vided, the total number of such permits issued shall 41/ not exceed twenty percent of the total parking spaces in all lots. The Yakima city treasurer is authorized to determine the number of permits to be applicable to various lots from time to time, within the limitations and according to the authority, rules and regulations of this section. When quotas are filled, subsequent applications will be placed on file, a waiting list will be established, and Permits will be issued as openings occur. 2. Permits shall be issued only upon the written appli- cation of an owner or manager of a business located 411 within the area bounded by the following streets: "B" Street on the north; Naches Avenue on the east; Walnut Street on the south; and First Street on the west. 410 Applications shall be made on forms furnished by the office of the Yakima city treasurer. 3. Permits shall be issued only for vehicles regularly used in business operations. 4. The issuance of a permit does not reserve a park- ing space in the parking lot, and each apnlicant for a permit shall acknowledge in writing that no such space is reserved and that the issuance of a permit by the city does not guarantee'the availability of a parking space at all times or at any particular time. 5. Each permit shall have designated thereon the parking lot for which the permit is valid, and the attempted use of a permit for parking in a lot other than designated on the permit shall not afford the park- . ing privileges which otherwise may be enjoyed by the permit holder. 6. Permits will be issued on a quarterly calendar basis only, to expire on the last day of the months of March, June, September and December of each year. 7. The fee for a long-term parking permit shall be sixty dollars per calendar quarter to be paid to the Yakima city treasurer at the time a new permit is issued, or at the time of making application for a renewal. The fee for a new permit to expire in less than three calendar months will be prorated at the rate of twenty dollars for any full or partial calendar month remaining in that calendar quarter. No fee will be prorated for less than one full calendar 41/ month. 8. Permits may be renewed on or after the twenty-fifth day of the month of expiration; applications for renewals will not be accented prior to the twenty- fifth day of the month of expiration. 9. No new permits will be issued during the periods of time between March 25th and April 5th; June 25th and July 5th; August 25th and September 5th; and December 25th and January 5th of each year. Renewal permits only will be issued during those time periods. 10. Applications by mail for renewal will not be accepted unless applicant has made prior arrangement therefor 411 with the office of the Yakima city treasurer, 11. Failure of a permit holder to apply for renewal within the renewal period specified by these rules may result in the loss of that permit to the next applicant therefor on the waiting list. 12. Permits will be cancelled on the application by the permit holder for such cancellation and the unused permit fee will be refunded as prorated at the rate -2- of twenty dollars per month for each full calendar month remaining in the period for which the permit was issued. No refund will be made for a partial calendar month. 13. The Yakima city treasurer is authorized to adopt such further rules and regulations, not inconsis- tent with rules and regulations of this subsection, as the treasurer deems necessary or advisable to administer the permit system authorized and adopted by this subsection. (2) Use of permits. Permits issued pursuant to this subsection shall be used in the following manner; and shall authorize parking privileges, and shall be subject to restrictions, as follows: 1. The permit must be displayed within the parked vehicle in such a manner so as to be plainly visible and legible from a point outside the vehicle near the driver's position. 2. A vehicle displaying a valid parking permit may remain parked indefinitely at any time during the day or night in any parking space in the parking lot desig- nated on the permit; provided, any vehicle or any portion thereof or vehicle hulk or any portion thereof which remains in substantially the same location Jr upon any parking lot operated by the city of Yakima for public parking for more than twenty-four consecu- tive hours or longer shall be subject to impoundment and disposal pursuant to Section 6.84.035 of this code, 3. The failure to display a valid permit may result in the issuance of an overtime parking citation to the registered owner of the vehicle parked in viola- tion of subsection A of this section. 4. A vehicle displaying an expired permit may result in the issuance of an overtime parking citation to the registered owner of the vehicle parked in viola- ", tion of subsection A of this section." Section 4. This ordinance is one to provide for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health, safety and wel- fare of the people of the City of Yakima and an emergency is hereby declared to exist and this ordinance shall be in full force and effect immediately upon its passage, approval and publication as provided by law and by the City Charter. 411 PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, signed and approved this .14/ day of alwt(_, 1981. • • /Ce: Mayor ATTEST: ir O City y erk -3-